Sciota, IL
6/14/08

Investigators: Craig Whitworth, Larry Ball Sr, Larry Ball Jr, Paul Pershing

The house was built in 1836 and was a stagecoach stop for a while.  The front living room and front, upstairs bedroom were added on in the 1930s and the upstairs was used as a boarding house around that time.  The land has been owned by his family for 4 generations and owner lived in the house his whole life.  Former owners of the house said that a young girl had died there in the 1800s.  Before, he attributed the increase in activity to remodeling, but during our walk-through, he said the activity increased when he brought new people into the house.

Owner told us about the objects being thrown only at him when he was yelling at his 8-year-old girls.  There was a little girl seen by owner and his children in the house at different times, but not recently.  Owner's wife of two years said that her radio would get turned off in the dining room (and sometimes turned on again).  She also said that she smelled chocolate cake cooking in the kitchen on a few occasions and she smelled her grandfather's scent on the back porch once.  Both owner and his wife said that they've heard someone following them up the stairs to the second floor.  On two occasions, owner said that he got a cold chill and felt slow steady pressure on part of his body when he was in their bedroom (upstairs in the front of the house) - once on his back and once on the side of his head.

Both owner and his son have seen a low black shadow that they first thought was their cat.  owner and his son have also both heard a male voice.  His son heard the voice near the clothes line in the back yard.  The son's bedroom door (formerly owner's bedroom - also upstairs) used to come un-latched and open on its own until part of the latch was lost.  The TV is said to turn off and on in the same room. 

I think that's everything.

I had nothing notable in my pictures and nothing else (that I know of ) in my other footage.  I haven't seen or heard anything from Paul or Larrys' footage, so I don't know if they have anything to share.

I've also attached a modified version of my 'bad' EVP.  I cut out the sections with owner's and my voice and butted the remaining quiet sections together and amplified it further.  The two voices of a woman and a girl are a little clearer, but I still can't tell what they're saying (and the timing is different now because of the chunks that I cut out)

I'll let you know if I have anything else and hopefully, you'll get something from the others.

Craig Whitworth

Craig Whitworth's EVP -

This one isn't so clear, but you can hear a conversation between a woman and a child in the background.  We were standing in front of the upstairs bookshelves during our walk-through with owner and his wife.  We were talking about the sound of being followed up the stairs and the possibility of a loose floorboard.  We had just come upstairs and we had only been in the house for about 10 minutes.

 The child's voice sounds to high-pitch to be their son.  More like a little girl.  Sounds of Mother and Child talking
Craig's modified version of this evp. Craig cut the audio file and pieced it back together with just the mother and child talking. Sounds of Mother and Child talking

Larry Ball's EVP -

Larry picked up the same evp that Craig picked up on his tape recorder that he carried on his body.  This is from Larry's audio recorder. Sounds of Mother and Child talking
Larry cleaned up this same evp by cutting out some of the background noise to try to hear the conversation better. Sounds of Mother and Child talking
 

Craig Whitworth's EVP -

Craig picked up another EVP upstairs as he was setting up his equipment - You can get it down